Around the Ivies
Columbia University: Jonah Reider, a Columbia University senior, has started a pop-up gourmet restaurant named Pith in his dorm room, the Columbia Spectator reported. Reider prepares five-to-eight course meals for two to four diners four nights a week, and prepares the food in the common kitchen of his suite in Hogan Hall. He takes reservations on Yelp and is already fully booked until Christmas.
Cornell University: While meeting with several reporters at a Cornell Club breakfast in New York City, Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett expressed her support of academic freedom and free speech, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. She said she would never require professors to provide a “trigger warning” prior to teaching a particular topic or book. She also argued that there should be no limits on free speech at universities, stating, “We’re about reason, rationality, debate. So if you disagree with someone, the answer isn’t to shut them down.”
Harvard University: Last month, Harvard University’s world champion debate team lost to inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, the Harvard Crimson reported. The prison’s debaters are members of the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides inmates with a college education in conjunction with Bard College. Last year, the Eastern New York Correctional team also defeated the University of Vermont’s nationally-ranked team as well as a team from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Princeton University: Princeton University professor Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this week, reported the Daily Princetonian. Chair of the Princeton economics department Janet Currie explained that Deaton was recognized for his work on consumption, poverty, and welfare. Specifically, Deaton’s work analyzed “the impact of individuals on policy by understanding that decisions of individual consumers aggregate to the economy as a whole.”
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alum and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will be hosting Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7, reported the Daily Pennsylvanian. The show he is set to host airs exactly one year and one day before the 2016 election.
Yale University: Seven new senior societies were created this fall at Yale University as part of an ongoing initiative to make the society system more inclusive, the Yale Daily News reported. The initiative began in response to ongoing criticism that the current “tap” system was “hyperexclusive, stressful, and opaque.” About 100 students are members of these new societies, each of which has an officer designated to communicate with administrators in charge of the initiative.